H. G. Wells
Writer
"Advertising is legalized lying."
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Dizzy Dean
Baseball Player
"Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat."
Wyndham Lewis
Artist and Writer
"The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake."
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"The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying."
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"The price of success must be paid in full, in advance."
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"A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter."
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"News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising."
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"Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out."
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"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
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"I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising."
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"Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers."
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"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
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"People aren't interested in you. They're interested in themselves"
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"The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time."
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"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"Advertising is the life of trade."
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"If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?"
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"Everything a brand does is advertising."
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"Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it."
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"It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase."
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"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
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"I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising."
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